Publishing

June 1, 1986|By Deanne Branon

BUYING IN BALTIMORE. Times Mirror Co., publisher of the Los Angeles Times, agreed in principle to buy A.S. Abell Co. for $600 million. A.S. Abell owns The Baltimore Sun, the Baltimore Evening Sun and two TV stations. The purchase announcement came one day after Baltimore's other newspaper, the 213- year-old The News American, ceased publication, leaving the Sun papers as the only general-circulation dailies in town. Besides its flagship newspaper, Times Mirror owns Newsday, the Dallas Times Herald and the Denver Post.